Lookout/Look Out!

project description

A Blue Mountains collaborative video/performance installation from Margaret Davis and Sean O'Keeffe, featuring Uncle Chris Tobin, Shane Porteous and Georgia Adamson in stories of settling and unsettling our region. On exhibition: World Heritage Space, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre February - April 2027. Lookout/Look Out! questions the nature of settling on someone else's country - who is unsettled by your arrival? And how settled can we remain, living on a plateau surrounded by the spectacular but endangered natural environment? Combining filmed performance with spectacular video footage, story-telling and visual imagery this project has been developed with assistance from CreateNSW and the Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust. Margaret Davis as Writer/Director, Chris Tobin as Dharug Adviser, Sean O'Keeffe as Videographer Jessica Tobin as Dharug Storyteller/Visual Artist, Shane Porteous as Performer/Visual Artist, Georgia Adamson as Performer, Tony Leach as Production Manager and music by Jasper Tobin and Abbie Payne.

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Lookout/Look Out!

A collaboration between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal storytellers, artists and performers.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF NGURRA

The City of the Blue Mountains is located within the Ngurra (Country) of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples. MTNS MADE recognises that Dharug and Gundungurra Traditional Owners have a continuous and deep connection to their Country and that this is of great cultural significance to Aboriginal people, both locally and in the region. For Dharug and Gundungurra People, Ngurra takes in everything within the physical, cultural and spiritual landscape – landforms, waters, air, trees, rocks, plants, animals, foods, medicines, minerals, stories and special places. It includes cultural practice, kinship, knowledge, songs, stories and art, as well as spiritual beings, and people: past, present and future. Blue Mountains City Council pays respect to Elders past and present while recognising the strength, capacity and resilience of past and present Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Blue Mountains region.

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